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System Administrator/Architect (Contractor) @Kabam
Kabam | San Francisco CA 94105 USA | Contract | Posted: 04/14/2012
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Based in San Francisco with offices in Austin, Beijing and Luxembourg, Kabam merges art and science to deliver entertainment as a service. Kabam delivers deep, crafted experiences for gamers who love competition, strategy, role-playing-games and social gameplay. Kabam is platform agnostic – delivering always-on, always-evolving experiences for gamers no matter where they choose to play.
Kabam believes games should be irresistibly fun to play, so the company measures its success on how often people return to Kabam games and how long they play. Kabam’s games have been praised by the media and industry and, more importantly, Kabam players for their depth of play and social interaction.
Are you a creative self-starter who is passionate about games? We want to meet you!
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Brief Description
Candidate will help us build a structure to take player event log files and pipe them into EMR to allow SQL like queries. Individual will also be tasked with building an RRD backed charting and alerting tool. Writing script to put aggregated SQL query result from EMR into Zenoss/MRTG/Cacti/Nagios...
Description
As a leader in the free-to-play core social games arena, Kabam is a key player in transforming the traditional gaming industry. We have a successful track record of creating high quality, massively multiplayer social games that delight and engage core gamers. Our games combine the deep, immersive gameplay found in MMO games (strategy, RPG style) with the connectivity and interaction of social networks. Kabam has commercially launched 6 games to date, including The Godfather: Five Families, Dragons of Atlantis and award-winning Kingdoms of Camelot,with many more in the pipeline. You can play Kabam games on Google+, Facebook and other social networks around the world. Our studio business model allows us to sustain a startup culture that empowers you to drive change and influence the outcome of your contributions – ones that impact millions of gamers daily!
Think you have what it takes to make real games? We want to meet you.
Experience needed:
* Amazon EC2, EBS, EMR, Especially EMR.
* Expert of: Zenoss, MRTG, Cacti, Nagios
* Scripting language(s)
* Database queries
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Note to Candidates:
Kabam does not accept paper applications at this time and requests that all candidates submit their information online by either applying directly to an open requisition or submitting a general profile.
Note to Placement and other 3rd party Agencies:
Kabam does not accept unsolicited agency resumes sent to our website or to any Kabam employee, and will not incur fees to any third party agency as a result. If there is a need for third party agency assistance, then a representative from the Recruiting team will contact you.
This job listing originated on Gamasutra.com, the game industry's leader.
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States |
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| Job Level | Senior |
| Categories | Programmer / Engineer |
| Platforms | Online Multiplayer |
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| How to apply | Applications are no longer accepted for this job posting. |
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| Job Code | Syste |